The read
It runs long at 4h 16m.
Synopsis
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Alastair ReidDirector
Cast
- Jonathan PryceGerd Heidemann
- Alexei SayleKonrad 'Conny' Fischer
- Alan BennettHugh Trevor-Roper
- Tom BakerManfred Fischer
- Alison DoodyGina Heidemann
- Roger Lloyd PackDavid Irving
- Richard WilsonHenri Nannen
- Peter CapaldiThomas Walde
- Julie T. WallaceEdith Lieblang
- Barry HumphriesRupert Murdoch
- John ShrapnelGerd Schulte-Hillen
- Alison SteadmanEdda Goering